My view is that God allows suffering so we can alleviate it....
Then, with all due respects, you do not know the true character of God and His capabilities. God is perfect, that is a given. That means that He is literally incapable of feeling or doing anything that is not in harmony with perfection. God, therefore, cannot allow suffering because of His perfections, it is a direct result of mans choices, greed and .
In other words if there are starving children we can find ways to provide food for them...
I agree that it is a test of character and integrity to realise what you are capable or incapable of in these disastrous circumstances, but let us not forget that there are people in this world who are so wealthy that they could feed every child in the world, and still have plenty to spare, but they choose not to, and in consequence of their choice is that it is them who allow children to starve, not God. If you have the means to prevent it, and don't, then you are the one who will be held accountable for it.
If there's unemployment there are ways to employ people... such as the Works Progress Administration...
Yes, I agree, however, this is down to the science that we have come to revere so much. The introduction of new technology has made the needs of men obsolete. I saw this coming thirty or forty years ago when working in a factory where the need for men to take bottles out of crates and place them on a conveyor belt to be washed was replaced by machines that instantly made those people redundant. I witnessed half of the workforce disappear as a result of this new technology. It was inevitable because you do not have to pay a machine, whereas, men cost money, and there we are back to the greed of men and capitalism. God had nothing to do with that one. It was man who accepted the acclaim for their innovative works in making peoples lives a misery by having to live on welfare, and then call them "drop outs" and "lazy". I am not saying that it is wrong for science to develop new technology, but surely it would have benefitted mankind far more to keep those machines out of the work place for the sole reason of giving men's jobs and giving them a better standard of living which then creates a happy society. That way the employer and employee are both satisfied instead of just the employer.
If there are pedophiles we can arrest them and see they get the therapy they need.
There are pedophiles because of the immoralities of mankind that have gradually increased in veracity to a point where we can barely control the animalistic nature of mankind. It is the acceptance of perverse sex between same sex couples as normal that has changed indecency into acceptable decency. It is probably the fluoride in our water, a poison, that has dumbed us all down to say nothing about these abominations performed by men on each other. So gullible have we become that we actually accept it when gays say that it is natural because animals do it, even though it is not a cognitive choice by them. We readily accept it when a few gay scientists claim that it is normal because of the illusive gay gene that they are born with, even though research into identical twins have disproved that hypothesis without any conceivable doubt. There is always a "what if" with gays. If it is not a gay gene then "what if" it is the action of a cluster of genes, or hormones, or anything that makes us appear normal. Again, we come back to the choices that mankind make. We have sexual perversion in our world today because we have allowed perverse sexual acts and practices to become acceptable in our society. God played no part in that.
If there are wars we can establish an international court of arbitration to resolve conflicts.
Do you know how profitable wars are? The logistics alone runs into the billions without ammunition and weaponry. The Iraq war is one of the most documented unnecessary wars on record. It was a war based on oil and the profit made from financing a war. Most of the companies that supplied everything needed to competently fight a war were actually owned by congressmen and senators. Life is not a consideration in war, it is the new cadillac or swimming pool that Senator Smute wants that holds the importance. Again, we are back to capitalism and the greed of men. God did not allow that to happen, it was men who intentionally created by blowing up their own buildings killing over 3000 innocent people that gave them the backing they needed to go to war, in order to feed their bank accounts.
If there are stillborns and miscarriages we can investigate what causes these conditions and how to alleviate them.
The cause of stillborns and miscarriages is beyond my understanding, however, I read a article recently that blamed the weakening of the gene pool by keeping the unwell to live a lot longer thus perpetuating the inherent weaknesses. If that is true then the blame again lies with new technology that keeps us alive. It is a very dodgy subject as to alleviate it we would have to control the mortality of the world and determine who can procreate and who cannot. I think that it is a natural result of a growing population where no one is to blame.
Can you imagine a "world" where all our needs are met and there are no challenges or goals to achieve? I can't
I no longer need to imagine it, it is almost here.
